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The Innate Emotion to Find the Creator

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

The Innate Emotion to Find the Creator Creator, whom he takes to be his everything. He devotes all his finer emotions for God. The Russian cosmonaut experienced an overwhelming joy on finding himself back on earth. But an individual should go much beyond that state on finding God! A true believer is he who, when he sees the sun, sees the light of God in it, who witnesses the limitlessness of God in the vast expanses of the skies, who finds the fragrance of God in the scent of a flower, who observes the mercy of God in the flow of a river. The difference between a true believer and someone else is that the vision of the latter is fixed on created things, while the former has gone beyond created beings and has established a connection with the Creator. An ordinary person thinks that the beauty of created beings is intrinsic to them, that it belongs to them. And so, he is entangled in them. On the other hand, a true believer sees the beauty of the Creator in the beauty of created things and surrenders himself to the Creator. An ordinary person submits to things of the world, while a true believer’s submission is for the Creator of the world. The Innate Emotion to Find the Creator H uman beings have a strange feature that is not shared by any other creature. And that is, the unlimited desire to search. Every human being has this desire within him, from birth itself, which makes him constantly search for

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